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Web Resources
Subject List ~ Evaluating Web Sites
Sometimes the web is a better place to go for information. Choose your web sites carefully, and be sure to look at every web site that you visit with a critical eye. Below you will find a select list of web resources that you might find helpful for your research.
First, choose a topic area:
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Business
The following web sites will be useful for business topics.
- Financial Times http://www.ft.com/home/us Financial news and information about companies, industries, global markets and world economy.
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Career Resources
- Marian Court College Career Resources Site http://www.mariancourt.edu/academics/career-exploration.html Follow this link to see some terrific resources for Career Exploration.
- North Shore Career Center http://www.nscareers.org/ This is a tremendous resource for those who need help with the job search. The center provides counselors who will meet with you to help you find a job; and the center offers many workshops to help you to practice and perfect interview skills, write a resume, cover letters, networking skills, and general help organizing the job search.
- Job Search Advice from Monster.com http://career-advice.monster.com/ How to dress for an interview, salary information, and tips for writing resumes and cover letters.
- The Riley Guide http://www.rileyguide.com/ These guys have been around for a long time (since 1994). They provide free job search advice (in the form of articles and columns) and information (links to other resources), on all aspects of the hunt for a job (resumes, cover letetrs, interviews, finding listings, and even how to handle a job loss and where to go for help filing unemployment claims).
- Kiersey Temperment Sorterhttp://www.keirsey.com/ The better you understand yourself, the easier it will be to help others to understand you and to find a suitable position for your personality type.
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Fashion & Culture
- Ad*Access http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/ Digital collection of print ads from the early part of the century.
- Fashion Era http://www.fashion-era.com/index.htm Contains 830 illustrated pages of fashion history, costume history, clothing, fashion, and trends. This is a great site produced by British fashion educator and fashion expert Pauline Weston Thomas.
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History
- Fathom The Source for Online Learning http://www.fathom.com/ Member institutions (The American Film Institute, The British Library, The British Museum, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University, London School of Economics, Natural History Museum, New York Public Library, RAND, Science Museum, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) have come together to produce a rich collection of material on a range of topics in the form of online seminars.
- Country Studies http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/ This site written by researchers at the Library of Congress provides detailed information on countries, including political leaders, military events, historical happenings from ancient through modern day.
Massachusetts History http://www.masshist.org/ This rich collection of primary source documents that relate to Massachusetts history includes items such as the papers of John and Abigail Adams.
Massachusetts Town Historical Societies http://www.masshome.com/histsoc.html This site includes information about town historical societies and other two information on the Web.
Cenus Archives http://www.archives.gov/ Search personal statistics from the 1940 census.
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Criminal Justice & Law
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Criminal Justice
- Bureau of Justice Statistics http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/ BJS mission is "[t]o collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded" (BJS).
- FBI CJIS Criminal Justice Information Services http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis Huge collection of data and reports useful for criminal investigations and research.
LexisOne http://www.lexisone.com/lx1/caselaw/freecaselaw Links to legal blogs, podcasts, videos, and other resources relating to popular case law.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service https://www.ncjrs.gov/ "Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide" (NCJRS).
The United States Department of Justice http://www.justice.gov/Examine strategic planning at the Department of Justice, news, agencies, and opportunities for students.
- Legal Information Institute at Cornell http://www.law.cornell.edu/ The goal of this non-profit group is to make legal information available for free. On this site there are links to federal and state laws, legal resources and bulletins, and information sorted by popular legal topic.
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Reference and Learning Resources
The Learning Ally http://www.learningally.org/is a resource for students who have a print disability. This organization provides audio books for students at no cost with documented disability or iep.
BookShare http://www.bookshare.org/ This resource provides free audio books for students with print disabilties.
LibriVox http://librivox.org/ provides free audio books to students for books in public domain.
Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/ This handy little search engine is geared to solve mathematical equations, questions, problems.
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Web Site Evaluation
Who is the author of the web site? Is the author an expert on the topic? How current is the information? Does the author indicate the source for his facts and information? These are just some of the questions that you need to ask yourself whenever you search the web for information on a topic. To find out more, check out the following web sites.
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